Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Paris

Paris Embraces Plan to Become City of Bikes

By Jason Varone | Mar 26, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Velo’v public bicycle system in Lyon, France. By the end of 2007 the city of Paris will have 1,450 bike stations offering 20,000 bicycles. The Washington Post reports: On July 15, the day after Bastille Day, Parisians will wake up to discover thousands of low-cost rental bikes at hundreds of high-tech bicycle stations scattered […]

Paris Approves Plan to Reduce Traffic by 40% by 2020

By Jason Varone | Feb 13, 2007 | 7 Comments

The Paris Link reports: Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë has unveiled his plans to cut traffic in the capital by 40%. The plans, which also aim to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by 60%, has met serious opposition with both drivers and right-wing parties. Despite this opposition, the Mayor’s detailed plans were adopted by the […]

Unintended Consequences of Paris’s Traffic-Reduction Policies

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 12, 2007 | 4 Comments

Red lights mean gridlock on this real-time map of Parisian road traffic. During the launch of Paris’s new streetcar system last month, a Times of London wrote that Parisians are beginning to turn against Mayor Bertrand Delanoe’s aggressive traffic reduction measures: Paris residents, most of whom do not drive much, were until recently happy with […]

Paris Set for Invasion of Self-Service Bicycles

By Jason Varone | Feb 6, 2007 | 14 Comments

Expatica.com reports: Paris is bracing for a transport revolution later this year with the arrival of more than 20,000 self-service bicycles thanks to a deal between city hall and one of the world’s leading suppliers of urban advertising. A contract signed Monday with JCDecaux gives the French firm access to more than 1,600 hoardings and […]

Beyond Thermoplast, Street Signs and Signal Timing

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 26, 2006 | 21 Comments

Last week we asked the Department of Transportation why the agency had not followed through on making safety improvements on the Fifth Avenue bike lane in Brooklyn by end-of-summer. DOT responded with a statement saying that "Share the Road" signs had, in fact, been installed and that, as part of the new citywide bike safety […]

Traffic Continues to Disappear in Paris

By Ethan Kent | Aug 11, 2006 | 4 Comments

In 2001, shortly after being elected the Mayor of Paris on a platform promising to "fight, with all the means at my disposal, against the harmful, ever-increasing and unacceptable hegemony of the automobile," Bertrand Delanoë began implementing a series of far-reaching transportation reforms throughout the City of Light. With New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner […]

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